Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled on a lawsuit the ACLU filed in February 2022 on behalf of several Michigan sex offenders over the state law, which was first passed in 1994 but changed in 2021. The suit named Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and then-Michigan State Police Commander Col. Joseph Gasper as defendants.

U.S. District Judge John Ross declared the portion of a law established in 2008 that required those on the sex offender registry to post a sign to their homes reading, “No candy or treats at this residence” on Halloween as unconstitutional. Ross said the law violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

Missouri sex offenders are no longer required to post "No candy" warning signs outside of their homes on Halloween after a federal judge ruled part of the state's Halloween law as unconstitutional.

The decision potentially affects many thousands of people whose names remain on the sex offender registry through many years of litigation.

U.S. District Judge John Ross declared that the part of the law requiring a posted sign violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.